Subject: Re: YDL 2.1 ipchains not working
From: Cdowns (cdowns@skillsoft.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 20:18:55 MST
all 2.4 series kernels are running iptables not ipchains. you will have to
compile ipchains into the kernel before you can use it.
-D
Ronald Hale-Evans wrote:
> I just upgraded from YDL 2.0 to 2.1 with some excellent help from this
> list, and everything looks super, with one main exception: I can't (or
> rather WON'T) get on the Internet because on boot, I get hundreds of
> messages, all reading
>
> ipchains: Protocol not available.
>
> In short, ipchains seems not be working at all, so I don't have a
> firewall. I'm running the 2.4 kernel that came with the YDL 2.1
> upgrade, and the associated ipchains package. The rules in my
> ipchains setup script, run at boot time, look something like this:
>
> ipchains -A output -p tcp -s $MONEYPENNY www -d $ANY $UNPRIV -j ACCEPT
>
> where:
>
> $MONEYPENNY = my computer's ip address
> $ANY = 0/0
> $UNPRIV = 1024:65535
>
> This is all pretty standard. Has the format for ipchains commands
> changed with the new kernel? I checked the new man page, and it
> doesn't seem to have. So what's the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron H-E
>
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